Saying I feel guilty is a mere form of words. Saying I feel ashamed is not. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God. — John W. Foster Copy Share Image
The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge. — George Russell Copy Share Image
Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial,… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Here was the rub: one must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to… — William Morris Copy Share Image
If you've been wondering where the next gold rush is going to take place, look up at the night sky to our… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a… — Rudolf Christoph Eucken Copy Share Image
Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical.… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth… — Duke of Wellington Copy Share Image
Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Feeling prosperous means paying your utility bills on time and with a smile on your face. Prosperity means not only giving to… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master… One of the duties of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not… — William Booth Copy Share Image
If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of… — William James Copy Share Image
Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion. — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances. — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
